Improvement in hammers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. MILLS AND JACKSON M. HANSCOM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMMERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 35,885, dated July 15, 1&2.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it knownA that we, GEORGE H. MILLS and JACKSON M. HANSOOM, of Boston, in the county of Sulfolk and State of Massachusetts, have p invented a new and useful Improvement in Hammers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specilication, in. which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our invention; Fig 2, an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention relates to a simple means for securing a nail to the head of 'a hammer, so that the nail may be stuck as it is technically termed, into the wood preparatory to driving it.

The object of the invention is to obviate the necessity of holding the nail with the fingers while being stuck, and hence facilitate the driving of nails, especially in positions rather elevated above the operator. i

The invention consists in-having the hammer provided at one side with a taper socket or groove, so arranged as to hold the nail and admit of thesticking of thesame and the ready detachment orwithdrawal ofthe hammer from the nail when stuck.

A represents the head of a hammer, which may be of the usual or any proper form, and provided with a handle, B, as usual. At one side 0f the hammer there are two lips or projections, a a, which form a socket or groove, C. The lips or projections a a are somewhat out of parallel with each other, as shown in Fig. l.

By this arrangement the socket or groove O is of taper form, its outer end being larger than its inner end, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The groove'O extends the whole depth or thickness of the hammer, and is in line with its handle B. The groove C is sufficiently large to receive the head and upper part of the nail to be stuck and driven, and at the same time hold the nail rmly. This will be understood by referring to Fig. 1, in which the nail is shown inserted in the groove,.in red outline. XVhen the nail is thus inserted in the groove C, which is but the work of an instant, the nail may be readily stuck by the operator, a slight blow being sut'- cient for the purpose, and the hammer is then withdrawn from the nail and the latter driven in the usual way.

This invention, it will be seen, will not add in an appreciable degree to the cost of the ha nimer, while it will prove a great acquisition in cases where the nail cannot be readily held by the fingers of the operator until stuck into the work or the place where it is to be driven.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim .as new, and desire to secure by Let GEORGE H. MILLS. J. M. HANSOOM.

Witnesses z STEPHEN F.l FoEBUsH, DANIEL CHAMBEELAIN. 

